Frederick County, MD: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Frederick County, Maryland sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Lender pressure in Frederick County registers 51/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. DLRadar scores 35 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 24/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 19 to 25 out of 100.
Currently peak, Frederick County saw prices rise 1.6% year over year (phase confidence 20/100). At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms as the ZIP scores below show.
Near the cycle top at +1.6% YoY (20/100 confidence), the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Mid-range bank stress at 51/100 points to both signal sets in play here.
The sharpest Frederick County readings come from 21701 (25/100), 21702 (25/100), 21703 (25/100), 21704 (25/100), 21705 (25/100), 21710 (25/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Further scored ZIPs: 21714, 21716, 21717, 21718, 21727, 21754, 21755, 21762, 21769, 21770.
Demographically, Frederick County's tracked footprint come in at poverty running near 7.6%, 83% owner-occupancy, a median household income near $127,993 (above the US norm), vacancy near 5.8%, a median age of 40.8, typical home values near $475,900. These fundamentals frame who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.
At 24/100 composite over 35 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average rather than a blanket buy. Unlock Frederick County to see every parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.
No county is too small to score: Frederick County, Maryland runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Frederick County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Maryland.
Approach Frederick County by rank rather than by average — the 24/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. The Frederick County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.
Drilling in, Frederick County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 21701 (25/100), 21702 (25/100), 21703 (25/100), 21704 (25/100), 21705 (25/100), 21710 (25/100). DLRadar also scores 21714, 21716, 21717, 21718, 21727, 21754, 21755, 21762 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.
DLRadar's composite for Frederick County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.
| ZIP | State | Distress score | 🔒 Owner | 🔒 Property Address | 🔒 Parcel ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21701 | MD | 25 | |||
| 21702 | MD | 25 | |||
| 21703 | MD | 25 | |||
| 21704 | MD | 25 | |||
| 21705 | MD | 25 | |||
| 21710 | MD | 25 | |||
| 21714 | MD | 25 | |||
| 21716 | MD | 25 |
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